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By Mark Ballard
The Inquirer
1-29-09
A VETERAN NASA agent who says he processed the real X-Files has come clean with the inside story on the Roswell aliens.
Joseph Richard Gutheinz Jr, a practising criminal lawyer and decorated former NASA special agent, spoke out in defence of UFO hacker Gary Mckinnon last week. Having also spent the last four years on the Texas Criminal Justice Advisory Committee on Medical and Mental Impairments, he felt qualified to call on the US government to cease its unfair hounding of the UFO hacker.
But Gutheinz, it turns out, is himself a poster-boy for UFO conspiracists, just like McKinnon: he is famous for telling a mysterious tale of dead Roswell aliens being kept in Building 265 at NASA's Johnson Space Centre where he used to work in Houston, and of a sinister government cover up.
Gutheinz led a team of agents in NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG). They worked from a secret bunker with grass and trees covering it. It had cypher doors leading to secluded rooms furnished with nothing but a desk, a lamp and a single telephone. Beyond the steel doors to the outside world, astronauts were training for Space Shuttle missions.
"It was kind of a spooky building. People always wondered what went on there," Gutheinz told The Inquirer. "Except for Mission Control, it was the most highly secured building at Johnson Space Centre."
The OIG agents were so secret that even NASA wasn't allowed to know what they were investigating. "The joke at NASA OIG is that whoever was the producer of the X-Files picked the wrong agency, because nobody calls the FBI. They don't trust the FBI. What they do if they think they've been abducted or something like that, they used to call the criminal investigators at NASA, which is the Office of the Inspector General.
"As a senior special agent I used to get these calls on a regular basis where somebody says I've been abducted, I've got a chip in my brain, there's somebody following me around," he said.
"It's one of the things that interested me about the Gary McKinnon story because here's a guy who really thinks there's UFOs, who's going the extra step to prove it. I understood that, because I had dealt with so many of those individuals in the past," Gutheinz added.
The most prominent of those people was Jerry Alan Whittredge, who impersonated an astronaut and thought he was a CIA assassin. He blagged his way into Mission Control, was given Space Shuttle specifications and permission to fly jets. "That was a lot of the people that we used to get calls from," said Gutheinz.
OIG agents were involved in the seven-agency investigation that caught Gary McKinnon snooping around their systems for evidence of captured UFO technology. Typically, the OIG roots out internal fraud at NASA. That's why they have to be secret. What they don't do is interrogate aliens.
The truth
"Just so you know, so we are totally clear," said Gutheinz. "You can dig all over the place - there is no ET at NASA."
But it was Gutheinz who in the February/March 2005 edition of UFO Magazine wrote how he had been abducted by agents even more secret than his own; how, being unable to account for whole days, with only vague memories of brain chips, he stumbled across the desert outpost in New Mexico where the Roswell aliens had been autopsied and a terrible accident had turned NASA personnel to dust in their own biological suits.
"I had taken complaints from people who believed the government had placed transmitter/receivers in their brains before, and I had always assumed they were schizophrenics," wrote Gutheinz. "Even today I know many people who believe this happened to them probably are schizophrenics, but now I know some are telling the truth?"
But Gutheinz was only kidding. He wrote the story for fun. He now finds it embarrassing. His children and students take the mickey out of him. His wife thinks he'll never live it down. And it was just the transcript of a vivid nightmare that had merged his life in a secret NASA bunker with the calls he would get from conspiracy theorists. Just a transcript, cheekily submitted to a UFO Magazine with an introduction that asked, are these real memories or was it just a dream?
"I thought it was a great idea when I wrote it, because I understood it. But it was sort of like Andy Kaufman. His humour - you were the only one who got it some of the time. I got it when I wrote the thing. I thought it was novel," said Gutheinz.
The magazine wrote it up under the headline 'Alien Autopsy Expose - He knows where NASA hid the bodies'.
A self-confessed maverick, Guntheinz has a track record in causing mischief. What do you think he did with those calls he got about alien abduction at NASA?
"I hate to say it, but when I had a rascal instinct, I would find somebody at the FBI didn't like, and I would give them that phone number and have them call the FBI," confessed Gutheinz.
Won't somebody please come forward and reassure us that there really are aliens? That this fragile, lonely planet isn't all we have? Perhaps take some comfort here: the Disclosure Project, the UFO group that inspired McKinnon to hack into NASA systems in 2001, will tell us what we want to know. They only ask for money first.
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Sunset is the best time of a Bigfoot expedition. I finally made it to the campsite about one hour before sunset. The team helped out and in no time my tent was up and my gear organized. I was stoked. We had a long day excursion planned for the next morning but now it was all about the night trip to the tree graveyard.
A nice fire to keep us warm
Kevin and Mike did some filming for the introduction to EA-TV episode of the Florida Skunk Ape. This is a project that has taken us into the third year of planning. The show does feature other aspects of the paranormal world, such as, ghost, UFOs, lake monsters, and so forth. I was excited to see that everyone was together and we were shooting in the field. In addition, there was a documentary company shooting as well.
Mike doing a great job on mic
Bryan and Sam from Big Wolf productions came with their camp gear and they were ready. It seems they are not just film makers, they are are experienced backpackers and know their way around the outdoors. That just gave us more capable people to assist. They wanted to remain objective and not do research. They only wanted to document what was going on, and shoot lots of "B" roll to help the documentary look slick. They had already shot Stacy Brown Jr and his team from north Florida, and now, they were shooting our team
Bryan from Sarasota documenting the event
After we wrapped up the interview segment of the show, we got our gear and headed out into the night. We would not be disappointed. We would be amazed by what we heard and saw. Check back tomorrow for lots more.
The campsite was the perfect place for the filming
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Date: November 3, 2012Time: 8:15 p.m. and once more at 10:00 p.m. Goodbye Brian, I barely indicate to impart what I saw last Saturday night, for me it was a very odd endure.I came out of my house, about to stop work to get a speedy hour in at the gym, time was I noticed two elegant, yellowish-brown lights flying overhead. They were booty a very wide-ranging arch which prepared me first view they were fireworks (FOR INDISPUTABLE REASONS, BEING SO GOAL TO GUY FAWKES NIGHT).After that, what struck me as odd, was that they did not twinkling. The next thing I noticed in the right position was that the flash light was following the first. Impart was no hurried movement but bestow was clearly a washed-out out contrivance as if they were banking to the missing in unison. The estrange between them was permanent.Moral, they weren't planes, no splendid lights and heartrending way too high-speed. They may possibly of course be in possession of been more rapidly to the ground but with the light did not sound elegant loads for that.So I comment, 'oh, they're helicopters', but they were leave-taking way too creatively for helicopters as well. And that's time was I noticed that bestow were no sounds either, no helicopter breathing, no jet engines, etc. So I plainly cogent that I had seen my first UFO. Since reasonably struck me as odd at the same time as was my own instant reply, not awe, shock, astound, etc., but a manageable shrug of the shoulders and 'oh, sunny.Ably, I missing the gym at about 10:00 p.m. and was thug backing, specific to see the fantastically lights in the sky once more, this time very nearly about a mile west of my house. As I was thug, I couldn't sit to tag on them, but it was reasonably a heartless endure the flash time ring-shaped.So what were they ? I was very shocked to see a go bust report of yellowish-brown lights in New Malden in June last year on your website. I can specific clasp someone has got a radio enclosed craft and is out for every fun to bend up the locals. Either that or I barely saw ET, I am spread-out minded to all show all the signs.If you be in possession of seen what on earth class this in the fantastically area gratify be pact loads to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net afterward the details of your sighting. All idiosyncratic information is reticent confidential. In addition to, gratify weigh up free to diminish in your sightings that be in possession of happened living ago. So bountiful of these gigantic sightings are dynamism lacking of breathtaking.The Vike Amount (BRIAN VIKE) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/The Vike Amount 2 (BRIAN VIKE) http://the-v-factor-paranormal-2.blogspot.ca/
Editor's Note: I'd like to welcome our long time investigator, Brandon Kuntz, in his debut article here on The Searchlight. I will make some comments along the way.
Disclaimer: These are personal opinions of the authors and, while they may reflect the views of the professional paranormal community, they might not. Comments are not directed at particular private persons or organizations and rather at publicly displayed television shows. In short, sue yourself for disagreement, not us. -Sean Feeney
Television shows on the paranormal make up such a small percentage of the average television line-up and out of that small percentage, very few approach their subject matter in a scientific or even downright logical way. I often find myself watching these shows simply because there's nothing else better on the particular subject. I know I may be coming off as a bit cynical here but when you're dealing with a topic that's so widely disbelieved as the paranormal its hard to approach it in any other way without coming off as well...a bit insane to your average viewer. Even being a believer in such things more often than not I find these shows a bit hard to watch and even comical at times. Although, it's quite easy to see the reasoning behind these shows of course. The aim of such shows producers isn't thought out scientific investigation, it's to garner viewers. This is where cheap scares, drama between "members of the team" and illogical theories that steer the aim of the show into fantasy more so than reality come into play. These shows focus completely on the unexplained and fantasy side of the paranormal and by keeping it unexplained it remains interesting to viewers.
Take the Travel Channel's Most Haunted for example, there's very little actual scientific investigation going on in this series for a fact most of the show bottles down to one investigator crying her eyes out in front of a camera Blair Witch style because she heard a sound and the so called physic claiming he's being possessed by ghosts and demons every five minutes. The act of the investigations themselves seems to be nothing more than that, just an act. The shows Wikipedia entry has a quite a few interesting quotes regarding the photography of Most Haunted, which adds to my hunch about the actual aim of the series.
"The photographic style of the series has changed considerably since series 1. In the first series many elaborate shots were set up with an almost 'theatrical' style, with illuminated windows and dry ice. Locations were often illuminated outside at night time, with blue and green colors. From series 1 - 3 there was extensive use of the steadicam, which provided gliding shots during Yvette's ghostly tales or for general views. In series 8 the team introduced a camera crane or 'jib' system for elaborate aerial shots of both Yvette and the locations. Most of the photography in Most Haunted focuses on 'general views' of a location and its surroundings. Most Haunted is filmed with both broadcast Sony DVcams and Sony PC120 miniDV cameras with night vision facility."
Sci-Fi channel's Ghost Hunters is the only series I can say I'm remotely happy with. For the most part they take every case as every paranormal investigator should, skeptically. Doing everything in your power to disprove a piece of evidence can often be a very hard thing to do as an investigator when your entire hope in investigating such things is to bring belief and credibility to the paranormal. What you have to see is that by disproving and dragging every piece of evidence through every test you can imagine, adds weight to it and brings it closer to fact and out of the realm of fiction. I think Ghost Hunters does this well compared to most series and that sole reason alone gives enough premise to watch it. When any evidence whatsoever is captured, I can believe it and more often than not I can agree with their methods for disproving it or proving it. All the praising aside, its not that Ghost Hunters doesn't have its fair share of theatrics as well, every once in awhile drama between members of the team comes into play. That's not much to fault the series over as a whole but, I could really care less if Brian forgot a wire and you're extremely pissed about it but, I'd rather see more of the reason I'm watching the show, the paranormal itself.
[Editor's Comment: I'm impressed at how the TAPS team learned from their mistakes early in the series and have since changed their investigative techniques. The new international team needs to learn from the same mistakes, however.]
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Stay tuned for Brandon's coverage of the History Channel's UFO Hunters and Sci-Fi's Destination Truth.
"Tonight's guest on the EXPLORING ALL REALMS radio-show that I co-host through Raven Meindel order be Bart Nunnelly, writer of the book Arcane KENTUCKY. And here's a bit better about Bart:Architect, actress, filmmaker and well traditional Fortean investigator, Bart Nunnelly has been studying all aspects of the puzzling in his native western Kentucky for over 25 sparkle. His wanderings all the way through the Bluegrass bottomlands keep brought him face to face through such creatures as Bigfoot, black panthers, water monsters and special other prying Kentucky cryptids plus a Thunderbird in 1998 - whatever thing no other years intellectual can a short time ago clear.In tally to famed beasts, Nunnelly has then sharp-witted ashen phenomena and UFO activity on diverse occasions. His first book, "ARCANE KENTUCKY"- https://www.prairieghosts.com/myst kentucky.html - was published in 2007 by Whitechapel Rub down to a lot famous person and his minute two device "THE INHUMANOIDS! AS IT SHOULD BE ENCOUNTERS BEFORE BEINGS THAT CAN'T STAY," and "BIGFOOT IN KENTUCKY" are all due out later this blind date by CFZ Rub down - http://www.cfz.org.uk/ - and Whitechapel Rub down, each.His crytpo-art has been extreme featured in whatever thing from minor books to computer screen shows all the way through the world and his first documentary, "EXAMINATION THE DOGMAN," a rabble-rousing investigation of Kentucky's werewolf sightings, was released in 2007 by Grendel Movies - http://www.grendelfilms.org/He is at this point execution on his flare crypto-documentary film project, "THE SPOTTSVILLE WORM," through McGill Media Llc, out of Louisville.
While most reports of flying saucers are quickly dismissed by defence chiefs, the previously classified papers show the sighting, which took place near Pitlochry in 1990, was taken extremely seriously. A former MoD official who investigated the case told Scotland on Sunday that despite strenuous efforts they could find no earthly explanation for the craft.
Witnesses reported seeing a large, diamond-shaped object hanging in the air next to a RAF Harrier above the A9 at Calvine, north of Pitlochry, on August 4. The UFO is said to have hovered for about 10 minutes before zooming skywards at high speed and disappearing from view.
The apparent close encounter of the Caledonian kind was photographed by members of the public whose images appear to show a blurry, diamond-shaped craft next to a jet. Fearing the pictures would spark significant media interest, the MoD decided to bring it to the attention of the Government. A Whitehall official wrote in a memo: "Such stories are not normally drawn to the attention of ministers. "On this occasion, however, the MoD has been provided with six photographic negatives of an alleged UFO... and has been asked for comments almost certainly for inclusion in a forthcoming story."
The memo suggested the media should be told that "no definite conclusion had been reached regarding the large diamond-shaped object". It has also emerged the MoD went on to commission a series of line drawings of the object the following year, noting that the "sensitivity of the material suggests very special handling". Former MoD civil servant Nick Pope, who dealt with UFO reports, described the image as the "most impressive" ever shown to his department.
He said: "The MoD has all sorts of equipment and expertise that we used to analyse and enhance imagery to tell whether there were any signs of fakery.
"This picture was assessed by our digital experts, who concluded it was a real photograph showing a solid-structured craft which was estimated as being around 25m in diameter. There were no wings and no visible signs of any propulsion system. It was exotic and unknown in a way far beyond even the most modern stealth aircraft being trialled at that time."
Pope, who served in the MoD for 21 years until 2006, claims they were unable to come up with any firm answers about the craft and its origins.
"I remember going to a briefing with the defence intelligence staff where the photograph was discussed. My opposite number in defence intelligence pointed his finger to the left and said, 'It is not the Americans,' then to the right, saying, 'It is not the Soviets,' and finally, he said, 'That only leaves...' and pointed his finger directly up."
During his time with the ministry, Pope had a blown-up copy of the photograph on his office wall until it was personally taken down by his superior. He recalled: "My head of division removed it and put it in his drawer because he was convinced, wrongly in my opinion, that it showed a top secret prototype craft.
"Somewhere along the line the photo disappeared, but I have no idea whether it was genuinely misplaced or whether it was treated as something we shouldn't have seen and put through a shredder."
Meanwhile, another newly released file reveals how efforts to create a computer database of UFO reports were halted amid fears of a potential public relations disaster should its existence come to light. The aim was to produce a database which could supply information and explanations when ministers were asked questions in Parliament about sightings.
A memo from March 1988 revealed the project was to be ditched because it "contravened" statements from ministers saying UFOs did not pose a threat to the UK. The official wrote: "I also understand that there was some concern about public reaction if knowledge of the work being undertaken emerged in the media."
A further file insists that the death of an US Air Force pilot attached to the RAF was a "tragic accident" rather than the result of a UFO encounter. Captain William Schaffner's fatal crash into the North Sea on September 8, 1970, made headlines over allegations he was on an secret operation to intercept a glowing, unidentified craft. But an MoD report concluded: "There is no reason to suggest that there is any sort of UFO incident in any way connected with the tragic crash."
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